# vri
## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch frī, from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós.

### Adjective

vri
* free

#### Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* vriheit
* vriwaren
* vriën (“to free”)

#### Related terms

* vrede
* vrient
* vriën (“to love”)

#### Descendants

* Dutch: vrij
** Afrikaans: vry
** Negerhollands: vri, vrie, fri
** → Aukan: felei
** → Caribbean Javanese: frèi, prèi, pré
** → Indonesian: prei (“holiday, free, doing nothing”)
** → Javanese: ꦥꦿꦺꦲꦶ (prèi)
** → Peranakan Indonesian: vry
** → Sundanese: peré

## Middle Low German
### Alternative forms

* vrîg

### Etymology

From Old Saxon frī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /friː/
* IPA: /friːʝ-/ (inflected stem with -g-)

### Adjective

vrî (comparative vrîer or vrîger, superlative vrîest or vrîgest)
* free

#### Declension

or

#### Descendants

* Low German: fri, free, frigg
* → Danish: fri
* → Estonian: prii
* → Faroese: fríur
* → Latvian: brīvs
* → Livonian: brī
* → Norwegian: fri
* → Swedish: fri

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Danish vride and Old Danish writhæ, from Old Norse ríða, vríða.

### Verb

vri (imperative vri, present tense vrir, passive vris, simple past vred or vrei or vridde, past participle vridd, present participle vriende)
* to turn, twist, wring
* (reflexive) to squirm, twist, wriggle, writhe
* (card games) to change the colour or suit that is allowed to play (according to the rules of the particular game)

### Noun

vri m (definite singular vrien, indefinite plural vrier, definite plural vriene)
* a twist
* (card games)
** a card game where one can dictate the colour or suit that is allowed to play
** a change of the playable colour(s) or suit(s) in such a card game

### Adjective

vri (masculine and feminine vri, neuter vritt, definite singular and plural vrie)
* (dialectal) difficult, intransigent

### References

* “vri” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “vri_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “vri_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “vri_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* vrida, vride (verbs; long forms)

### Etymology

From Old Norse vríða, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną. Originally a strong verb, it may now also be inflected as a weak verb. Related to vreid (“wroth”) and vreide (“wrath”).

### Verb

vri (present tense vrir, past tense vridde or vrei, supine vridd/vridt or vride, past participle vridd or vriden, present participle vridande, imperative vri)
* to turn, twist, wring
* (reflexive) to squirm, twist, wriggle, writhe
* (card games) to change the colour or suit that is allowed to play (according to the rules of the particular game)

#### Derived terms

* forvri, forvrida, forvride
* vri halsen om på
* vridar m
* vridekle n, vrideklede n, vrikle n, vriklede n
* vridel m
* vridemaskin f, vrimaskin f
* vriding f
* vridnad m
* vrien
* vrifure f, vrifuru f
* vriåttar m

#### Related terms

* vrikke

### Noun

vri m (definite singular vrien, indefinite plural vriar, definite plural vriane)
* a twist
* (card games)
** a card game where one can dictate the colour or suit that is allowed to play
** a change of the playable colour(s) or suit(s) in such a card game

### Adjective

vri (masculine and feminine vri, neuter vritt, definite singular and plural vrie, comparative vriare, indefinite superlative vriast, definite superlative vriaste)
* (dialectal) difficult, intransigent

### References

* “vri” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* riv

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

vri (Cyrillic spelling ври)
* inflection of vreti:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative